Duane Whitmer's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Duane Whitmer has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
New York Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Abortion in my opinion is murder, but the network needed to monitor women, and their activities would violate the 4th amendment. Also, that same network can be used to monitor political dissidents, or in a state like New York, that same network could be used to monitor gun stores. The government needs to focus on educating about safe sex, and making adoption cheaper. | |||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| No | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| We should be lowering taxes on small business and lower income and middle class families. We also should end the tax on social security income. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| There should be more transparency involved - if a corporation or llc donates to a candidate, the owner who made the donation should be listed. Not the LLC or corporation. Also - the limit should not be on LLC's but on the owners of said LLC. This prevents people from forming many LLC's and donating the max multiple times. | |||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| No - government officials should not be held above the law. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| We do need a strong military to defend our nation, but we need to stop interfering in other countries. Bring our troops home, and end foreign wars. | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| Lowering taxes, and cutting extensive regulations that force small businesses out of the market will promote economic growth. Lowering taxes for small businesses will help more money recycle around the local community. If the government is going to help businesses and individuals it needs to help them, the CARES Act was a sham used by Congress to bail out their donors and give kickbacks to their friends, while giving the average person table scraps. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| States have the right to set standards for their own state. The federal government has forced teachers to teach for a test, not for learning and education. We need to remove the bureaucracy and let teachers teach. | |||
| No | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| The right of a person to defend themselves and their property is not the business of the government. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
| No | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| We need to end the war on drugs, and the war on guns. This takes away the power from the cartel, and allows Mexicans to take back the power in their country. | |||
| No | Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
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